The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-02-24
KAvENNA. THURSDAY. FEB. "a. 1887
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ONLY one week more of the present
Congress,
The Senatorial complications still
continue in New Jersey and West
Virginia.
THE Day ton Journal rep. remarks
on the contrary, that public senti-
.ment was rather against the lately
vetoed bill.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Illinois Legislature to prhibIt boy
colts, under q penalty of five years in
the pepitentiary or fine of 81. 900.
THE wedge has been inserted which
will lead to the sale of the canals OF
the State. The Geyer bill to sell the
Wabash q Erie Canal has passed The
Ohio House.
OHIO has 64, 1877 lawyers, 85,67l doc
tors, anu 54. .2s7 cigar makers. Ii any
one is anxious to know what becomes
of the peoples money, let him ponder
at the above figures.
BLrwEEN the years 1867 and 1879
Republican Administrations spent
$27I ,a4l ,4s2 SO on our navy. AS We
had no ships when they were Danish
ell from power, what was done with
the money?
THE House Committee reported
back the Dependent Pension Bill
unanimously, recommending its pas
sage over the Presidents veto, which,
it is thought, will fail The vote will
be taken today.
INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL: It is q
fact worth thinking of that the Uni
ted States Government is now spend
ing more money every year for pen.
sions than any other Government is
spending for the pay of its troops.
The Sandusky Register (Repub.
says the President I" acted wisely" in
vetoing the pauper pension bill, and
adds: "The soldiers of the Union
cannot afford to make farce of the
pension business"
WIN. ALLEN, a cowboy, recently
found, in a cave near Rapid City, Da
kota, five mummies, supposed to be
the remains of a family belonging to
an aboriginal race. They will be sent
to the Smithsonian Institute.
The American Cotton Docks, at
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, were
set on fire by lightning. last Saturday
night, and entirely burned down.
Loss, $500, 900, fully covered by insur
ance.
EVENING TELEGRAM: Stop unjust
and unreasonable taxation. and we'll
have no more of q phenominal surplus
Well, aren't Al per cent, on nearly
all the necessaries of life, levied for
the bent fit of mOnopolists, UNJUST
and unreasonable taxation? ?" Then
let's stop it.
several months preceding the election
last fall the Ohio penitentiary should
have been reported as self-sustaining
and since then has been falling behind
at the rate of 81 500 per month. There
is suspicion Of doctored reports in |
these facts.
MELINITE. a new explosive with |
which the French military authorities |
are experimenting, is said to have ten
times the power of nitro glycerine, |
and 100 times that of gunpowder
General Boulanger, the French Min
lister of War, has decided on the i'm |
mediate manufacture of 2lO, 900 nell
mite projectiles.
THE Chicago Herald says there 10 |
some difference between Secretary of |
the Treasury Manning and Secretary |
of the Treasury John Sherman. Man
ming resigned his position to 60 into |
the banking business in Gotham, but,
according to all accounts at the time,
Sherman went into the banking bust
ness there, and did not resign. The
bank is still known on the street as
Fort Sherman"
The resolution submitting prohibi-
tion to the people has passed the leg.
islature of Pennsylvania, and been
aligned by the Governor. The people
at the next election will say whether
they want whisky or no whisky. The
Republicans of Pennsylvania show
more courage than their brethren of
Ohio, who are fighting like cats and
dogs over the liquor question.
In West Virginia there is nothing
required to enable man to escape all
jury duty except mere request to
have his name placed on the jury list.
The law provides: "But the name
of no person shall be put on such list
who may have requested the Court,
or any member thereof, by himself or
another person, to have his name
placed on such list"
THE New York World says: After
all, Ohio isn't such q civilised state.
When q gang of roughs can board a
railway train in the most enlightened
part of the commonwealth, murder
mn officer and release burglar, there
IL still room for the missionary and
school teacher. Such an episode re.
ported from Texas or some other
Southern State would probably set the
pens of Republican editors to oscilla
ting. Ohio should have a lesson from
one of John Sherman's investigating
committees.
COUNTERFEIT notes to the value of
$4s ,5l9 have been discovered by Treas.
ury officers among the National bank
notes sent to the Department for re-
dam nti0n since the establishment of